The Humanities at Gustavus Adolphus College: Meeting Challenges with Excellence

FAIN: ZED-284126-22

Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN 56082-1485)
Elizabeth Kubek (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2025)

The creation of at least thirteen new positions, including part-time faculty appointments, tenure-track positions, and student researchers, as well as the purchase of equipment to support humanities programs across the institution.

Gustavus Adolphus College strives to fulfill its mission to equip students to lead purposeful lives and act on the great challenges of our time through an innovative liberal arts education of recognized excellence. Without a strong humanities component to the curriculum, excellent humanities faculty, and broad humanities programs we cease to be a liberal arts institution. This grant would support humanities faculty positions, curriculum, faculty development, research, and community engagement that may not otherwise be possible in the coming years. The financial losses associated with the pandemic have been immense and felt College-wide. Students enroll at Gustavus for its academic excellence, its signature events, its commitment to diversity, and its vast array of activities in which all students can participate. We are ultimately a tuition driven institution and our students and community deserve and demand that humanities remain a vibrant core part of their Gustavus experience.